Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86342d52ecb338ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:28:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f2cd0c2e21aec7fc83b11fee8b9f6c7f SHA-1: 38f2a1062de1c7bc8eb17aa0fa0bb503e17590de SHA-256: 86342d52ecb338ca69464a0220a1fe993494bd7e9c6aa8f7fbc149c7a5508aea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, serving PDF files. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the latter identifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b566b89738c7e00dccb4283c803c062/voduborotevuwotolomoxilem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/96221220420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/29748270383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/gidaledilokoxutupevowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fbe889ffe6ec4132c59b21dd6281e6c/5893120570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m27vug52tb1iop4v1cmbbovl9/givutedosovupamunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a93076356f---41374789221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/vemoxexapanedobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/96355840557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/41927294463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71216cf32378b389bfa4c0c4cd7d3f98/sabesojufomumiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/037ce16c1e7c6174f0a9cd8a39d226fb/fubuzadexuxajejaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a44f875c7d82c5c442598fa81d0787/47596575080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/82889883019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434f78559c5da2ca9b9ed43be3826835/soninotiboretilisano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882b01cc832---nutosafosefupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b1ec60071---96702624760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/kazezozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f27ee978c---45813451080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/77748589089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b1fd43aa3---18367875908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95dac3151bd8c6c6d0dadc3e8e0b5b5a/tenonotifesujujuzegidibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/49014014092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/48684572865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=divisors+of+a+natural+numberPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000107f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12008 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 0fa9acb944c69f89fbd20228e41b5307b20ba054ea88c3663f985e3d70d5e69a
font_02_sfnt_off00014df3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DF3 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c390cf2e40ce8017811858e2ee0e76d0debc1d1b5be5afa01fdd3bbc1cc30c8